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Longest Increasing Contiguous Subarray

Finds maximum length contiguous slice where elements are strictly increasing.

Time O(n) Space O(1)
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Reference implementation (Python)

def longest_increasing_subarray(arr):
    max_len = curr = 1
    for i in range(1, len(arr)):
        if arr[i] > arr[i-1]:
            curr += 1
            max_len = max(max_len, curr)
        else:
            curr = 1
    return max_len

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